u.s. secretary of state's visit to cairo opens a floodgate of criticism from opposition leaders who say the u.s. is too heavily involved in internal issues. for the syrian opposition rebels are preparing to receive millions of dollars in aid plus direct support for armed groups fighting the assad regime of bickering with their foreign backers. private bradley manning pleads guilty to handing military data to wiki leaks to show the public the true cost of war but u.s. authorities will pursue the more serious charges of aiding the enemy possibly lending him behind bars for life. so the catholic world becomes a leader standing down for the first time in six hundred years leaving the church is reputation spiralling. taking a chainsaw to america's economy with eighty five billion dollars and potentially

hundreds of thousands of jobs to be cut thanks to republican and democrat bickering . in broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with the week we are now america's top diplomat john kerry has faced a wall of criticism and public protest during his visit to egypt some of the country's opposition leaders accuse washington of interfering in the country's domestic politics to see whether the sentiment is being echoed on the streets i'm now joined by our cairo correspondent bill true now could you tell us a little bit more about john kerry's visit in the reaction there on the streets.

history of people actually burning pictures of john kerry saying that he was supporting the muslim brotherhood and u.s. interests in the egypt on a formal political level opposition leaders including hamdeen sabbahi and mohamed el baradei failed to attend the meeting on saturday yesterday six of the eleven opposition because he used to attend the sabbahi himself who of course is part of the national salvation front the leading opposition coalition here he said that he wouldn't open dialogue with john kerry that you the u.s. continues to pursue their interests here and to interfere at a domestic level. for his part apparently did to meet with john kerry were not sure was actually discussed. they talked to him on the phone to those clearly a feeling of anger towards the u.s. secretary of state who was calling for political consensus which many people interpret as a backing the muslim brotherhood policies here has historically been

a lot of anger towards the u.s. since the revolution people saw america as supporting him back to form and to switching their leases to the most in brotherhood and of course pushing forward this very unpopular four point eight billion dollar i.m.f. loan which will see subsidy cuts and tax hikes affecting the poorest of society john kerry for his part of course was in turkey where he was seemed to be attempting to smooth relations with israel another unpopular subject here in egypt and what many people are saying here is he's backtracking on american policy of supporting the islamists in the region as it continues to cause problems and we will have a john kerry meeting with mohamed morsi the president here today we expect the protests is yet to be seen. the thoughts on the subject or it is bill true from cairo we know that you'll be keeping up with the story. develops. now. me editor of the london based arabic newspaper al quds arabi explains why

egyptians are highly skeptical about american involvement in the country's internal affairs. it is really ironic the united states has been the safety nets of record for the gates. is being seen to be lucian as the main support. emerging in egypt to buy many egyptians that's why the do good for the three united states is interfering in egypt's. a few years in favor of the ruling. party is a very difficult time. again. in. three days of egypt. it was syria's apparently never ending civil standoff which became the key issue of u.s. diplomacy this week after bargaining and mixed messages syria's

a key opposition group managed to get more concessions from washington and its pro rebel allies the u.s. has agreed to provide direct a non-lethal support to opposition fighters battling against the assad army on the ground it has also promised an additional sixty million dollars in aid but washington's been reluctant to send on to the rebels citing fears that they could fall into islamist hands opposition fighters are however thought to be getting covert weapons supplies from gulf states john laughlin to from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says the attempts to beef up the rebels won't bring syria any closer to peace. sixty million dollars should not be sneezed at and what the americans are trying to do is basically to prop up a project that so far has failed if we look back to two thousand and eleven when entering kenton was calling for the overthrow of a stance they expected the regime in syria to fall very quickly and that hasn't happened however great the rebels' gains may have been the regime is still fighting

back and still shows no signs of collapsing instead is the opposition which is fractured famously the syrian national council is a rag bag of different interests the opposition is breaking up and there are plenty of people within the opposition at least according to my sources in the region who are bitterly disappointed with the west who expected a lot more money they probably wanted to steal a lot of it but certainly they have not received all that they have been promised it'll be interesting to see how much of this sixty billion dollars gets through that the ordinary syrian population is suffering very greatly from this opposition from this so-called liberation because this these paramilitary groups clearly cannot provide any basic services they are not the state israel could soon get the unique the benefit of being america's official major strategic ally that. annual pro israeli gathering in washington but the leaders of both countries are absent we've got analysis in just a few minutes. have

a comedian turned democrat and a sex scandal survivor. well some of the leaders tasked with attempting to form a coalition with a post-election. government shortly. this week u.s. private bradley manning pleaded guilty to handing over secret military data to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks prosecutors say that they will push forward with the more serious charges of aiding the enemy and call over one hundred forty witnesses to prove their point a guilty verdict could mean a life sentence. watched the latest developments. guilty but not sorry more than one thousand days after his arrest u.s. army private bradley manning admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history private first class bradley manning has pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty

two charges against him private bradley manning now admits he gave thousands of secret document to the wiki leaks website manning gave his first detailed explanation of why he did it manning said he uploaded troves of u.s. secrets to the wiki leaks website because quote americans have a right to know the true cost of war and he has the purest form with he had the a very sophisticated now a fifth of why he had to do it as a duty to spread americans to expose what their government with doing in their name which with illegal uncouth in homes around the world so all credit to him he's a modern hero. the former intelligence analyst said he attempted to contact traditional media outlets like the washington post the new york times and politico but failed to get through to them later deciding to pass the documents on to wiki leaks manning said he engaged in a prolonged internet conversation with the wiki leaks member called cox who he assumes was julian a songe i think it's very clear that the risks of street government secrecy are

much graver and have already done much more serious damage to the united states and god knows other countries and the risks wrought by whistleblowers and leaks like this one manning pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge which washington is determined to proof the u.s. government is reportedly planning to call a key witness to testify that osama bin laden actively sought to access material manning passed along to wiki leaks some reports suggest the unknown individual could reportedly be one of the navy seals involved in the i bought about raid that killed bin laden the fear here i think is that you would be sensationalizing the proceedings and it would it would make it nearly impossible for manning to have. a fair trial in a just because we now be talking about terrorism terrorism and terrorism will get away from the fact that he is charged with the offense of releasing the information and they don't have to show that terrorists received it this will continue the

obama administration has ushered in this era of pursuing whistleblowers and making certain that they are prosecuted and they go after them zealously in a manner that they do not go after other individuals that's been the thing i think is the most particularly striking is you can have private contractors who engage in weapons smuggling like like the blackwater executives or you can have bankers that engage in financial fraud and they are pursued as jealously as whistle blowers following his arrest in may two thousand and ten manning was kept in solitary confinement at a military jail in kuwait then at a marine prison in quantico virginia for the first ten months of his detention a former army analyst spent twenty three hours a day in a six by eight foot windowless cell and was forced to sleep naked without bed sheets treatment that hundreds of legal scholars including president barack obama's former harvard professor claims was cruel and inhumane punishment that may have

undermined manning's psychological stability i think he was treated very horrendously and they were very they were very much trying to break him and subject him to horrors and to make it clear to intimidate people around the world who would do the kind of heroic things that bradley manning did to try and it's through them from doing that manning himself said he believed the move would only embarrass but not damage to the u.s. and eventually kick start a public debate the results the u.s. was shamed in front page headlines around the world a nervous superpower launched a witch hunt against whistleblowers and wiki leaks became a household name the cost for young private they spend between twenty years and a lifetime behind bars for an important i.r.t. new york. it has been a week since elections italy and its senate remain in limbo with parties across the

political spectrum so far refusing any talk of coalitions and one party led by enigmatic comedian now finds itself in the role of king maker but go to lowe's anti austerity anti corruption rhetoric a rally to millions of italians securing him a quarter of the vote but he was still behind democrats and a coalition led by disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi the president is now calling on all sides to work together to try and form a stable government or else face new elections and there's growing concern about the financial ramifications of the deadlock. your real crisis the elephant in the room that nobody was talking about so far this year is dock on its back big time because ultimately fifty seven percent of the thai you just don't like the idea of a sturdy and they don't really want to do the sorts of things that the european union will sue posed upon them that's causing us a huge problem because ultimately you've got incredible new parties like bet degree

leo's five star movement you've got an incredible wave of support that came back from mr berlusconi a former prime minister and so billy missions and of course knowing it plays in the worst possible political limbo there's no clear ike right winner there's no clear government it's going to take weeks on end and if it really is not going to be able to reliable member of the euro zone then there probably is not going to be a euro zone but ultimately should investors lose money because of bad investment decisions well as an investment advisor i say that's what we call capitalism that's what's happened it shouldn't just be a case of the poor people innocent people are forced to suffer incredible austerity a propos of billing all right investors and bankers and still to come in the program israel is sliding down the press freedom rankings as it stands palestinian journalists from working for israeli.

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and live from moscow this is our team glad to have you back with us now the catholic church witnessed history this week as pope benedict the sixteenth officially resigned something a pope hasn't done for six hundred years and as the church remains a leaderless internal divisions and a marred reputation mean that many are losing faith eroding the church's foundation archy's reports. it's not just about selecting a new bishop of rome some say but the very future of the catholic church the catholic church is undergoing a very important prizes it is a crisis at two levels is the government tries this entity is it tries itself the believes there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals of about the leaks far

from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight disillusionment and frustration with the church among some about the i distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been talking with specially after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church and i realize that it doesn't represent my spirituality benedict the sixteenth may have been the first pope with a twitter account but many argue this measure alone was not strong enough in appealing to the masses of the she's there to transparency the age of the people the churches should be properly swim they'd be. considered sacred she went. to great assets well everybody now you see that they will be to be. the problem a bit of this media they're really working on the system he's going he went to change beliefs about the church for people of gabrielli of this inability to face up to and much less to punish those who may be responsible for tainting the image

of the church is the deciding factor in abandoning catholicism. there's another scandal with a girl who disappeared in the by. twenty years ago and they say they found the remains. police are leading the investigation here but instead of helping them. and on top of all those cases of pedophilia this is just disgusting the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse pedophilia accusations alleged large scale corruption and possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has been having a field day with the scandals the vatican either stayed silent or rebuffed all accusations but those things may be looking rather grim for the seat of st peter's at a first glance there's still a chance because the church can make

a comeback. with the church really splitting through but there. could be strong we become to reform but in spite of that. relations have left me wondering if the holy see has been blind the world is rapidly changing and that the catholic church has failed to keep pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs as well as in two thousand year long history but there is opinion that perhaps taking on pleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and filling it with people going for secrecy is a tradition better left in the past in rome. david gibson author of a biography on benedict the sixteenth believes the resignation is actually a chance for major change in the catholic church. as a theologian which is what he is and

a scholar which is what he is at heart and in churchman he was a very beautiful writer his in cyclicals the most authoritative documents of open issue but look as an administrator of the church as an evangelizer someone going out to meet the masses meet the people he really was not that successful in of course the is lack of administrative skills really you know resulted in all of these crises and scandals and by by resigning the pope has kind of reduced the papacy kind of demystified it what does it time to go for a pope who will represent where the future of the church really lies that's the other three choices facing these cardinals and and that could you know really determine the future of the church i think seaquest ration cuts have kicked in in the united states with the government now slashing eighty five billion dollars from its budget following political deadlock but even as the first snips are made the blame game is raging with democrats and republicans desperate to offload responsibility and economist richard wolfe says the american people should prepare

for the worst. if publicans and democrats alike are committed to an austerity policy as we do and see it in europe their only disagreement is exactly who gets cut whose axes get raised and i'm very pessimistic as are most observers in washington that we are about to do what britain italy greece have done with the same dire consequences looming in our future if you cut government spending as we're about to do if you raise taxes on average people which we did on january first with the rise in the payroll tax those are a double whammy two hits on our economy they depress the economy they lose people jobs they make people cut back in their spending with less jobs and less pending government tax revenues go down and that you races whatever benefit you might have imagined would come to the government's budget the irony is the economy gets worse

and the government budget gets worse until they wake up and realize that this is an inappropriate way to go at a time of economic crisis israel could become the first ever nation to enjoy the official status of america's major strategic ally is among other things could mean the u.s. would be obliged to support any potential israeli offensive against iran the proposed legislation is to be discussed at the annual american israeli public affairs committee gathering about to kick off in washington despite the significance of such a move neither of the leaders of the two countries are attending geo political analyst patrick headings and says that this could be a sign of the israeli lobby losing its influence we know the u.s. and some noises coming out of washington there is quite a little contingent within the united states that is looking to perhaps get into to combating negotiation with iran and not be talking abrasively as they have in previous years and israel has entered the fray the israeli lobby is really putting

pressure on. those politicians in america to take a more israeli line which is a more hardcore lied us to do with perhaps a flame war with out of around the big change that we're looking at is a shift there is a shift away from this kind of like allegiance to israel that is on capitol hill in washington d.c. there are splits appearing because americans are realizing that it's not in their best interest it's not in american interest to follow israel's agenda so therefore aipac is it's not beneficial for aipac to be running the government and want any more as for the past thirty years. when this friendship leaves. the apac congress this sunday on. press freedom has become the latest victim in the gaza israel confrontation and

a tit for tat exchange hamas has stopped israelis from working in the territory and the israeli government says palestinians can no longer work for media on its soil party's policy or reports. november last year israel and gaza are at war and in the middle of it a gaza journalist reporting in hebrew for leading israeli newspaper it was the last major story sunday our rami would write for the hebrew press a month later gaza's ruling hamas party banned palestinian journalists from working with israeli media accusing it of being hostile tel aviv refuses to recognize hamas and regards it as a terrorist organization and a magnet for mother i do not understand this decision unfortunately i feel that our struggle will have less meaning if we do not speak to the israeli media and make them hear our message sami feels he's on a personal crusade to help both sides better understand each other when his nine year old daughter was hit by an israeli missile it was his israeli editors who

arranged for her to be bought across the border and treated and it was in the newspapers that he published his anger and anguish over israel's bombardment of gaza. the how to. israelis using the media in its war against us in this war journalists are under attack they want to kill all our words and reports that prove that there were no crimes in gaza is that their father has a half year of the attack is coming from both sides of the border israeli journalists today are banned from working on gaza but ironically it's not a must but tel aviv that stops them deeming it too dangerous for them to report from their overhead him oh is among a handful of israeli journalists who'd regularly work in gaza but after his government made it illegal six years ago his station employed gaza based palestinian journalists now because of hamas ruling even that has become impossible it's very problematic decision of hamas of a lot of other decisions that the hamas made the result is that the only reports

leaving gaza but are those hamas sanctions not particularly promising in light of the recent human rights watch report that accuses a muscle harassing assaulting an arbitrarily detaining journalists israel too has come under fire for deliberately tog. reporters and media houses affiliated to him must be doing its last one. is worthwhile twenty places in the two thousand and thirteen world police feeding index due to the actions of its army in the palestinian territories the media blackout does little to shed light on the fate and future of ordinary gazans it also pits rate stereotypes on both sides of the border that have done nothing but breed mistrust and hatred policy on t.v. tell of its. let's not take a spin around the world and look at some other news stories making headlines this hour several hundred people have attended a far right protest in the u.k. with fifteen arrested supporters of the english defense league blocked off much of the city of manchester as they marched through the streets escorted by more than three hundred police scuffles broke out between the protesters as different

factions within the group clashed three hundred and fifty demonstrators took part in a counter rally against the group later in the day. hundreds of thousands of protesters have rallied in twenty cities across portugal to call for an end to deep a budget cuts protesters in the capital is been held up banners and chanted slogans against austerity measures put into place as part of an e.u. and i.m.f. bailout under the terms of the rescue portugal has to make an extra four billion euros worth of cuts over the next two years. and in a few minutes we'll look at why half of all h.i.v. infections in the united states affect only thirteen percent of the population.

there's an old urban legend that says that the us are you stopped using search your targets for rightful practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot at people on the battlefield the logic is that if. practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women yeah law enforcement targets in coffers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the unborn and innocent children and it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but i sure why a pain.